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Cake day: April 17th, 2019

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  • Yep this has been a growing problem, with ppl using various alt accounts on different servers to downvote things. Usually it’s pretty obvious because these accounts are all from the same servers, and have little or no comments or posts.

    With that setting you can be sure that all the votes at least are coming from your local users, keeping vote anonymity, and without disconnecting from the bigger servers.




  • That got added recently, but you still need a phone number to sign up. A phone number is tied to your identity, meaning that signal’s database has the names and addresses of everyone who uses it. And since signal is US-based, its subject to US national security letters, meaning its illegal for signal to tell anyone that the US government has requested information about who they’re talking to.

    Under the Obama administration, an average of 60 NSLs were issued every single day.